Oscars 2010: Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker

Really? Avatar for Best Picture?
There is no way Avatar should beat Hurt Locker in that category...

Avatar should not be a Best Picture contender, Hurt Locker should win it flat out and I am sorry but from where I'm standing I thought Inglorious Bastards was Tarantino's worst outing yet. I can understand some nods... but 8!?!?

hurt locker will win

I don't think Tarantino should get best director. In fact his Tarantino-isms kept it from being a real masterpiece.

Up, is should get best picture and director, imo.

hurt locker all the way. avatar was disgustingly overrated. yes its a good movie, but its far from original. it does not deserve to be the number one movie of all time.

D9 was not very good imo. What's with all this Hurt Locker love? It was ok at best. I'm not a military guy but I've seen much better contemporary war films. Hell, I liked Black Hawk Down and Jarhead better than Hurt Locker.

hurt locker - best picture
avatar - best director

It would have been a travestshamockery if Worthington would have been nominated for Best Actor. He couldn't hold the cup that Renner pees in as far as comparing the two acting roles.

The over-hype of Avatar will continue and the sales will continue to increase because of it. I'm with Bropus...the Academy is messed up. I don't pay any attention to the Oscars anymore.

I don't get why you guys are bitching about Avatar being nominated. You all wne tto see it, and if you didn;t you can't copmlain because you haven't seen it. So what if it got nominated? They don't judge these things based on plot alone. They judge it on the overall work and performances of the cast crew, teh quality of work that was put into it. They also view these films based on the type of work, in this case Avatar's ground breaking graphics.

I mean 'Citizen Kane' is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, but it is not called that for its plot, no the plot is teh weakest point of the film. It is considered the greatest because of teh groundbreaking visuals used, teh amazing performances by the cast and crew, Welles' amazing work as director and star of the picture.

I don't think half of these should have been nominated, Up shouldn't have, Inglorious Basterds was one of Tarrentino's worst films yet. Precious is good, but overrated, the only thing outstanding about it is
Gabourey Sidibe's amazing performance. District 9 surprised the Hell out of me by securing a nomination, i don't know what to say about that one.

Two films that should have been nominated were Invictus, and Crazy Hearts. They are far better films than half those nominated. But out of teh nominees

HERE IS A LIST OF THE NOMINEES

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Director

James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)

Adapted Screenplay

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Jesse Armstrong, Ian Martin, Tony Roche (In The Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air)

Original Screenplay

Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy (Up)

Animated Feature

Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess And The Frog
The Secret Of Kells
Up

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk Of Sorror
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography

Avatar
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Costume Design

Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Documentary Feature

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Documentary Short

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears Of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign Of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing Of A GM Plant
Music By Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin

Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Makeup

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Original Score

James Horner (Avatar)
Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr Fox)
Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
Michael Giacchino (Up)

Original Song

'Almost There' (The Princess And The Frog)
'Down In New Orleans' (The Princess And The Frog)
'Loin de Paname' (Paris 36)
'Take It All' (Nine)
'The Weary Kind' (Crazy Heart)

Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Animated Short
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady And The Reaper
Logorama
A Matter Of Loaf And Death

Live Action Short
The Door
Instead Of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

yea, i liked avatar but i don't think it should win. and i just saw the hurt locker yesterday very good movie. it should win one

Hurt Locker wasn't that great of a movie, it was overhyped as well. Hurt Locker was good, but it was by far the best this year, I would be happy with it over Basterds, but it was hardly the best.

I am not shocked at the nods given to 'UP' at all. That movie actually had me cheering at some points. It is a great film.

@rormachine I heard the girl from Precious did a complete 180 for the role, they say that the character that she played is the total oppisite from who she really is, I think thats awsome... I kinda hope she wins.

Bropous, don't take it so seriously for [frick]s sake, Im sure the boys didn't actually wish diarrhea on you because you didn't like Avatar, its called A JOKE. Also, you hate everything!

He does Multi, verbal.

MovieTheaterLad-- Thankyou, I had been wanting to watch that guy's review. He funny.

Avatar will win the Oscar for best picture. No matter how much I or anyone else doesn't want it to happen. It will happen.

That being said, I'm actually surprised that D9 is nominated for best picture. It's my personal favorite movie of 2009, but I definitely did not expect those assholes at the academy to nominate it. Intriguing.

The Hurt locker SHOULD win best picture of the year, but alas, it will not happen.

Inglorious Basterds was cool, but I definitely don't see it as a best picture winner at all.

And I love Star Trek, but there was no way in hell that it was gonna be nominated for best picture.



Fine list nonetheless.

Aaaaaaand? You do hate everything and BSG is really great?? ;)